WEST INDIES. 
CHAP. I.] 
13 
During this contest about the disposal of coun¬ 
tries, most of which were at that time in the hands 
of their proper owners, the Charaibes; the man, 
who alone had the merit of annexing the planta¬ 
tion of Barbadoes to the crown of England, seems 
to have been shamefully neglected. The earl of 
Marlborough, having secured to himself and his 
posterity, the gratification I have mentioned, de¬ 
serted him 5 and the lord Carlisle, having done him 
premeditated injury, became his irreconcileable ene¬ 
my. Courteen, however, found a friend in William 
for the good and happy government of the said province, whether for 
the public security of the said province, or the private utility of every 
man, to make, erect, and set forth, and under his or their signet to 
publish, such laws as he the said earl of Carlisle, or his heirs, •with 
the consent , assent , and approbation of the free inhabitants of the said 
province or the greater part of them, thereunto to be called, and in 
such form as lie or they, in his or their discretion shall think fit and 
best. And these laws must all men for the time being, that do live 
within the limits of the said province, observe ; whether they be 
bound to sea, or from thence returning to England , or any other out- 
dominions, or any other place appointed, upon such impositions, 
penalties, imprisonment, or restraint that it behoveth, and the quality 
of the offence requireth, either upon tne body, or death itsen, to he 
executed by the said fames earl of Carlisle, and by his heirs, or by 
his or their deputy, judges., justices, magistrates, officers, and mi¬ 
nisters, according to the tenor and true meaning of these presents, in 
what cause soever, and with such power as to him the said fames eat 1 
of Carlisle, or his heirs, shall seem best : and to dispose of offences 
or riots whatsoever, either by sea or land, whether before judgment 
received, or after remitted, freed, pardoned or forgiven ; and to do 
and to perform all and every thing and tilings, which to the fulfilling 
of justice, courts or manner of proceeding in their tribunal, may or 
doth belong or appertain, although express mention of them m these 
presents he net made, yet we have granted full power by viitue of the^e 
